HASKETON SMITHFIELD LIMITED
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Cash
£1.2m
+19.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£9.3m
+144% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
103
+2% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£8m
+140.1% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £100,378,311 | £115,737,501 | £121,430,491 | +4.9% | |
| Operating profit | £3,114,743 | £3,713,222 | £8,167,394 | +120% | |
| Profit before tax | £2,660,570 | £3,324,146 | £7,980,671 | +140.1% | |
| Net profit | £2,026,873 | £2,543,849 | £6,009,620 | +136.2% | |
| Cash | £1,969,656 | £984,117 | £1,175,009 | +19.4% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,666,657 | £4,663,660 | £10,230,022 | +119.4% | |
| Net assets | £1,402,878 | £3,825,078 | £9,334,698 | +144% | |
| Equity | £1,402,878 | £3,825,078 | £9,334,698 | +144% | |
| Average employees | 91 | 101 | 103 | +2% | |
| Wages | £4,375,076 | £4,831,478 | £4,964,090 | +2.7% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £451,605 | £413,758 | £439,151 | +6.1% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.1% | 3.2% | 6.7% | |
| Net margin | 2.0% | 2.2% | 4.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 116.8% | 79.6% | 79.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 91.5% | 80.5% | 59.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.04x | 1.14x | 1.50x | |
| Interest cover | 6.86x | 9.54x | 37.80x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- HASKETON SMITHFIELD LIMITED 2025-12-04 → present
- GRESSINGHAM SMITHFIELD LIMITED 2018-07-06 → 2025-12-04
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Larking Gowen LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on this, the directors have concluded that the Company and Group will have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, and at least twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements. The directors therefore continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- HASKETON SMITHFIELD LIMITED · parent
- J.F. Edwards (Smithfield) Limited 100%
- Peter Thompson Group Limited 100%
- Ken Briggs Ltd 100%
- Allen & Co (Smithfield) Limited 100%
- EH Broome & Co Limited 100%
- Peter Tocher Limited 100%
- Sumeray and Rogers Limited 100%
- J.F. Edwards (Primrose) Limited 100%
- Peter Thompson (Smithfield) Plc 100%
- Peter Thompson Poultry (1982) Limited 100%
- Peter Thompson Food Service Limited 100%
- Edwards & Walkden (Norfolk) Limited 100%
- Peter Thompson International Limited 100%
- Peter Thompson Poultry Ireland Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In November 2024 the City of London Corporation announced plans to pull out of its relocation of Smithfield meat market and Billingsgate fish market to Dagenham, which was due to occur in 2028.”
- “During the year J. F. Edwards (Smithfield) Limited and Peter Thompson Group Limited, together with other Market Stall holders, entered into compensation agreements with the City of London Corporation for the cancelled moved to Dagenham.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUCHANAN, Geoffrey Maurice | Secretary | 2018-07-06 | — | — |
| BARBER, Stephen John | Director | 2022-05-12 | Jan 1982 | British |
| BUCHANAN, Geoffrey Maurice | Director | 2018-07-06 | Mar 1970 | British |
| BUCHANAN, William Edwin | Director | 2018-07-06 | Jul 1968 | British |
| HARLEY, Stephen Andrew | Director | 2018-07-06 | Mar 1963 | British |
| WHIFFIN, Edward George | Director | 2022-03-10 | Apr 1995 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| REID, John Michael | Director | 2018-07-10 | 2022-01-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Geoffrey Maurice Buchanan | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2018-07-06 | Active |
| Mr William Edwin Buchanan | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2018-07-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 33 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-12-09 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-12-04 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-07-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-12-09 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-12-04 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2025-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-06-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-07-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-07-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-09-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-05-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-04-29 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-03-23 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-09-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-07-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-02-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.